Effects of three-dimensional assessment on surgical correction and on hook strategies in multi-hook instrumentation for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis.
METHODS
A prospective study using intraoperative stereophotogrammetry to analyze change during the correction of scoliosis.


OBJECTIVE
To examine the relation between the number of hooks used during segmental instrumentation and the amount of correction achieved.


BACKGROUND
An intraoperative stereophotogrammetric technique was developed at our center. Vertebral translations and rotations can be measured at several stages during scoliosis surgery.


METHODS
Thirty-two patients with right thoracic adolescent idiopathic scoliosis were studied using our stereophotogrammetry technique during surgical correction. Correlations were determined between apical vertebral movements and the hook ratio (number of vertebrae/number of hooks used).


RESULTS
Mean curve Cobb angle correction was 66%. Correction occurred in all three planes but primarily along the x and y axes. Scoliotic deformity was corrected by translation of the vertebra along the y axis and rotation about the x; physiologic kyphosis was restored by translation along the x axis and rotation about the y. The plane of maximum deformity as compared with the sagittal plane of the patient corrected from 57 degrees to 25 degrees as an indication of detorsion of the scoliotic deformity.


CONCLUSIONS
Increasing the number of hooks per vertebral segment significantly enhances the correction of the coronal scoliotic deformity and enhances the z axis derotation, but does not significantly change the reestablishment of the kyphosis, nor does it result in significant elongation of the spine.
Sawatzky
B J
BJ
Department of Orthopaedics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Tredwell
S J
SJ
Jang
S B
SB
Black
A H
AH
D000293:Adolescent; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D007432:Intraoperative Period; D007738:Kyphosis / Q000601:surgery; D009984:Orthopedic Fixation Devices; D010780:Photogrammetry; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012399:Rotation; D012600:Scoliosis / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D013909:Thorax